New Delhi: Terming it as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘worrisome’ that the Home Ministry asked the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims and tourists to curtail their stay and go back, the Congress on Saturday said that the BJP government is creating the image that outsiders are not safe in Jammu and Kashmir, while the locals are fully lined with […]
Islamabad: Pakistan has completed 90 per cent work on the Kartarpur Corridor from the zero line to Gurdwara Sahib and plans to inaugurate it on the 550 birth celebrations of Guru Nanak in November this year, according to a media report. The corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine […]
Islamabad: A bomb blast hit a security forces convoy in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, leaving two soldiers dead and another injured on Friday night, local media reported. The blast hit a vehicle of security forces during routine patrolling near Malizai area of Pishin, a district in Balochistan, Xinhua said in a report. Three soldiers onboard […]
Raipur: Seven Maoists were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, police said. The exchange of fire occurred around 6 am in the forest near Sitagota village under Baghnadi police station area, when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Deputy Inspector […]
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday hoped that Pakistan will help the US in Afghanistan as peace talks with the Taliban has apparently entered its last phase. Trump said he had developed a “good chemistry” with the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, whom he met at his Oval Office last week. “We’re doing very […]
New Delhi: India has asked Pakistan to provide “unimpeded” consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav in an environment free from the “fear of intimidation” and reprisal, in sync with the ruling by the International Court of Justice in his case, official sources said on Friday. Earlier this week, Pakistan sent India a proposal offering consular access to […]
Pakistan Police claimed to have arrested an “Indian spy” in Punjab province. Local media quoted police saying that they arrested an Indian national who “admitted” himself to be a spy. Police said the “spy”, identified as Raju Lakshman, was arrested on Wednesday from Rakhi Gaj area of Dera Ghazi Khan (DG Khan) district, some 400 […]
New Delhi: Putting the ensuing assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir on fast track, the BJP on Wednesday appointed party’s national vice president Avinash Rai Khanna as the party in charge for the upcoming polls in the militancy-hit state. An announcement to this effect was made here by party general secretary Arun Singh. The appointment […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner and condemned the alleged “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by Indian troops across the Line of Control which resulted in the death of a man. Director General (South Asia and SAARC) Mohammad Faisal, who is also the foreign ministry spokesman, summoned Gaurav Ahluwalia and “condemned the unprovoked ceasefire […]
A powerful bomb tore through a police patrol van at a busy roundabout in Pakistan’s Quetta Tuesday evening, killing at least five people – among them two policemen. Thirty-two people – including Additional SHO Shafaat Ali – were also wounded in the attack targeting the police vehicle parked outside the City Police Station at Bacha […]
